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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
MUSICAL NOTES.

| "Ruddygore," whether good or bal, is
| packing the Fifth Avenue theatre, New York.
Mime. Albani, the singer, has signed con-
| tract for a concert tour of France, Germany,
| Austria and Rnssia.
| Lilli Lehman has not yet signed her con-
| tract for next season with the Metropolitan
| Opera company. She says she will wait and
| SEQ who the new conductor is to be and will
sign the contract N Berlin.
Some of the salaries Of the American Opera
| company are as follows: Theodore Thomas,
| 81 900 per week; Manager Locke, $500 per
week; NJ. w. Whitney, 5000 per week, and
Candidus, 5000 per month.
The German musicians say that the line Of
virtuosity in music is steadily descending in
the scale of age, which is German way of
saying that many children nowadays play
extremely difficult music, and play it not as
Infant phenomena" but as real artists
Rubinstein showed of his Latin in writing
to tho manager of the National Opera COM
pany concerning the production OF his Nero"
Il shall be, he wrote, fall the time in a fever
ish impatiencc to hear about it, and hope you
viii let me know Instantly OF the result of
the performance, faS aut nefas"
SO, Sir Arthur Sullivan did not write the
overture 10 "Ruddygore." which has been
highly praised, after all 1t seems that it was
written 10y Nh Hamilton Clarke, at forty
eight hours notice Sir Arthur barely
glanced over it when the score was laid be-
fore him At the final dress rehearsal
Mrs Harriet Avery, contralto and Frank
Baxter. tenor, have taken the places with the
Boston Ideals recently vacated by Agnes
Huntington and Mr.. Lawton. Manager
Foster states that the receipts of the fourteen
performances by his company at the Boston
theatre recently amounted to S25, 600
Cable dispatches from Vienna announce q
most decided success of "Bellman," the latest
comic opera by Suppc, tho brilliant composer
of "Boccacco' and "Fatinitza," which was
performed for the first time at the Theater an
der Wien on Saturday last. Mr. Conrisd has
acquired tho right OF production for this |
country, and will add it TO his repertory Of
comic operas, which ho will produce during
the coming summer apl next season
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
SOME BRIGHT CHILDREN.

"There is something in this little fellow
like said an appreciative visitor to a young
hopeful he was trotting on his knees. "Say,
| now" said the boy, "how did you know l
had swallowed charlottesville Courier
Journal.
Hattie was lamenting because her baby
sister was not little boy: but one day she
came to her mother with hopeful face and
said, cheerily: "Well, mamma, like as not
baby sister will be boy when he grows up;
don't you think so.'-Detroit Free Press
Robbie was very fond of a young lady who
was making his grandma a visit. Ono day
he said to her: ''When / get big shall marry
YOU" His sister, two years hi; senior, imne
diately interposed: NO Robbie; l shall
marry her; but If l die, then You can have
her.-SShoe and Leather Reporter.
The latest story about little Master Stuart
Crane, the precocious 5-year-old son of Will
liam II. Crane, the comedian, is to the effect
that as the sweet child was sitting in his
mothers lap the other evening he broke out
with tho question:: Mamma, amt the stars
just the tacks in the carpet of Heavens'
A little girl living Oh Motion street asked
her aunt tho other day what was the other
name for Niagara Falls. Her aunt said there
was no other that she knew of. "Oh, yes there
is" replied the little girl. "for know little
girl who has one. on her eye" She meant
cataract. Montgomery (Ala,) Advertiser
A 1-year-old, who is about to give
birthday party, has sent out richly mounted
invitations reading in this way: MY mother
wants to know il your mother will let you
come to my party" Here is one of the an
swcrs written by a little girl: my mother
told rae 10 ask you TO tell your mother can
como to your party."-West Chester QPa)
Republican.
A Boston correspondent heard a good oc
casional story the other evening at the dinner
of the Association of Life Underwriters Mr..
James T. Phelps, the newly elected president,
related that his small son said to him at
breakfast Papa, what makes you SO
solemn What is the matterP oh" was |
the answer, Il have got to engineer that under
writer's dinner tonight, and it bothers ne"
Papa" inquired tho infant with the terrible |
SERIOUSNESS peculiar to his age. what DOES |
the engineer OF a dinner do. Does he turn on |
the crankst'
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
SPORTING AND ATHLETIC.

Pat shcedy now wants Inf OF as an exer
else lighting bag for Sullivan
Tho hackers of Jim Gore have rushed hin
down to q to in the Kentucky Derby.
Tcemcr and lIamn are growing anxious
regarding I he intentions of Ross and Lee as
to their challenge. They say they would like
to hear from Wallace and George pretty soon.
Burke has declared himself satisfied with
Gloycr's acceptance of his challenge, and says
the match will take place within ten weeks
and not more than 100 miles from Chicago
Du"ke's hacker says that he is willing to III
crease the stakes to $4,000 a side.
II. b. Conkiin, who is over 50 years of age.
is lying dangerously i'll at Greenpont. L. l.
Mr. Conklin is the gentleman who bred Rarus
and sold him for $50, 800, and who gave TO-
coo FOR EFedgewood and sold him for 10000
He now owns King Wilkes, ,..:a221 !, for whom
he has refused $4,000
Mr.. William r. Trayers, The. New York
broker, who has been reported on his Gcath
bed in Bermuda, is thorough sport, and is
especially fond of good, lively cock fight.
To make everything pleasant and entertain
ing and to cheer his lonely hours while con
fined TO bed he sent to New York recently for
q pair of good game chickens, had them taken
to lis room and amused himself while living
helpless in watching them fight. The excite
mcnt seemed 10 do him good.
Very little is known of Baiduin's entry,
Pcndennis, for the Kentucky Derby. He was
sic'; last year; but started four time. without
success Tho impression is now abroad that
Baldwin viii win tho Derby with him il pos
siLic. The stable employees have Ieen back
ing him IN Louisville. Everything indicates
that the horse is doing well. The odds
opened on him ut -, dropped to 60 and went
to p. Pendennis is in the same stable with
Goliah; but it is thought aIr. Baldwin means
the latter for the American Derby at Chicago
For the second time in the history of the
Sheffield handicaps, both tho Christmas and
Shrovctide liandicaps have been won by the
same man. This time the victor was j.
ioore, of Wombwell. There were seventy
nine entries in the trial heats, seventy five of
the best sprintcrs in the United Kingdom and
four from this country. Moore was favorito
in the Letting at the start, but was superseded
by Ransom. Addison, Smith, Moore, Ransom,
Ratcliff and Whitehead were within two
yards Of caci other in the time test.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
STAGE LIFE.

Rose Coshlan has cleared $4,000 thus far
the present season.
P. 7. Bafnrm is quoted rs saying that he
will live 70 he 100 years old.
John Gilbert, the Gctor, is - years Of age
and has been Oh the stage flfty-nine years.
Lieut. Powell, of the United States signal
corps, las resigned TO so on the concert stage
They say that Digby Bell was so dissatisfied
with his own performance the first night Of
"Rudlygoro" that lie actually cried with ves-
alton.
William Gil, author of Dixcys "Adonis, :"
and Bob Frazer are writing new builesquc
fairy trick pantoniine called The Spider and
the Fly"
Jack d. St Maur, well known both as
journalist and theatrical manager, is in the
advance of the Patti company IN the capacity
OF press agent.
The production Of "Wal,la Lamar at the
Lyccum theatre. New York, by Miss Dauvray
ard hcr company, is interesting because of its
employment of tho sons of famous actors
Alexander Salvini and L. \. So.hern
The Amherst college senate have voted to
allow the seniors to present u play next tersl,
and their action has been ratified by the presi-
dent The Private Secretary" will he given
on the Friday before commencement. Tho
parts will be assigned by competitive trial
row in progress.
Mrs. Noah, the once famous actress, is still
living in Rochester, y. y, in her S0th year,
and has promised 10 play Lady Macbeth at
a benefit in June. She says she has not looked
in glass for three years, and never will, be-
cause she does not want TO die of fright at
tie increasing evidence al old age.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL.

A Chubb lock exhibited showed that vari,
ton of only the two hundreth part OF en-
inch in one of the steps of the key was sutli-
cient to render the key useless
DIR. Riegler, of Pesth, Hungary, hos sue
cecded in photographing a projectile fired
from gun during its passage through the
air at the rate of 40 meters per second
The chief veterinary surgeon of the British
army, DR.. George Fleming, finds sufficient
experimental evidence to convince him that
smallpox and cowpox are not identical, as is
generally believed, and that the virus of one
will not produce she other.
In lecturing before the Society of Natural
History in Berlin, Professor Stricken has en-
ployed with much success AN electric lamp OF
1900 candle power for the projection of micro
scopic sections upon a screen, employing n
magnfying power of G,O0) to 5000 diametcrs.
gas lamp of $50 candle power it is said, con-
sumes but twelve cubic feet OF gas
per hour, producing thirteen candles of
light to the cubic foot Of gas. The best ar.
gand burner gives about one and a Ealf
candles per cubic foot.
The fourth case of the successful removal
of n tumor from the brain has been renoited
in England, the weight Of the tumor being
four and half ounces These cases of brain
surgery, with the exact location from th,
symptoms Of the spot affected, are feats OF
which science may well be proud.
A device for protecting factory operatives
from accident by being caught by swiftly
running wheels has been invented by n New
Haven man. 1t consists in winding the shafts
between pulleys with strings, spirally and
rather loose, and then inclosing the shaft in
zinc or in tin, or other metal cylinder. The
strings simply prevent any noise from con-
tact of the shaft with the metallic cylindrical
jacket. Should a woman get caught by the
hair it would instantly stop its motion, eav-
ing the shaft inside to revolve but without
doing harm TO whoever might DE CAUGHT
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Only 2 per cent. Of the working classco at
tend church in London.
Tho Hebrew orphanagc costing Sl5o,CC0,
10 to DO built at Cleveland, o.
There nro 1s5, coo German Roman Catholics
In Now York and II churches.
Australian Prcsbyterians arc raising eco,
600 for church extension and education.
The Northern Methodist Book concern has
assets 81 $50, G13S2; net profits for the year,
el2l ,sCo2G.
The Mohammedans are arranging to celc-
brato Queen victoiia's jubilee with prayers
in NIL tho mosques.
or the students who took the first rank in
the schools OF England 95 per cent were Sun
day school scholars
At the last Trinity ordination five Hebrew
Christians were ordained to the ministry CT
tho Church OF England.
John D. Lankerman has given Sl,0Oo,000
for German hospital, to be in charge of
Lutheran dcaconcsses at Philadelphia
Lincoln's Diblc, which he read in the White
House, has been given by his son Robert to
tho Lincoln Memorial Episcopal church.
Tho Hebrew population Of Jerusalem is
rapidly increasing. 1t is now 1900, tho
largest number since Titus destroyed the
scored city, a. d. 70.
Tho city OF Newark, N. j., contains 100, 900
people, and has thirteen Methodist churches.
An effort is to be made to inauguratc mis-
sionary work among the large population Of
non-chulch goers
In 1918 Mr.. Thomas Brattle tcqueathed to
N
gans, but the church refused to accept tho
legacy, on the ground that "they did not think
it proper to use the same in the public wor-
ship of Cod"
At aconfcrencc of the sect known as the
Mennonite Brethren in Christ, held at Read
ing, Pa, recently, a vote was passed that
preachers be prohibited from riding on rail
roads on Sundays One minister declared
that he walked eighteen miles every Sunday
Good tidings from the American Baptist
Mission on the Congo continue to come. At
Banza Manteke there are ,0G2 converts, and
the first Christian church in the Congo Free
State was organized Nov. 81, 1885, The
people have been obliged to worship in the
open air, in the burning sun or tho pouring
rain. Funds have now been sent for the
building of a large iron chapel. AT Lukemgu,
another mission station, many have thrown
away their idols.
A copy of the famous "Breecbes Bible"
was picked up at Boston sale a few days
ago. This Bible, which was printed in 1894,
takes its name from the following rendering
of Genesis iii, Z: "And they sewed fig leaves
together and made them breeches" 1t is also
known as the "Barker'' edition, and is ex-
cecdingly rare now. Speaking of Bibles, one
was purchased in England not long ago for
$4,000 This is the oldest printed edition
and came from Guttenberg's own press. 1t
is called the "Mazarin"
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
ART AND ARTISTS.

Hofer, tho sculptor, Is dead at Stuttgart.
Tho Paris salon this year viii contain
portraits OF Gen. Boulanger in many differ
emit poses.
A monument to Stonewall Jackson is to DO
erected on tho battlefield Of Charlottesville,
where lie received his death wound.
Dr. Franz Won Rober's "IIstory OF No
dimyal Artn ia u companion volume to an
important work by the same author, History
of Ancient Art"
The statue Of Napoleon which surrounded
the Colonnc Vendono stood ut an altitude OF
80 feet Ii its timo it was ono o. tho OK
amples of high Partisan art
No monument to Garibaldi has yet boon
erected at Naples. 1t is now proposed to
place one on the heights of ST. Elmo, where
it can be seen from all parts of the city.
w. ". Story, of Rome, has just finished
the monument to Francis S. Key, author OF
|. the "Star Spanglod Banner" which will
shortly be placed in Golden Gate park, San
Francisco
Mr.. Alma Tadema has been having
quaint iron bell made, copied from an old
German or Dutch model. 1t is in tho shape
of woman with enormous crinolined petit
coats, which hangs from graceful wrought
iron bracket, and her streaming hair Lies out
in ten rays, which admirably balance the
bell petticoats below. The "belle' must be
placed quite eight or ten feet from the floor,
US it is rung by a long iron chain, very deli
cately wrought, which hangs straight from it,
Inquiry has been made by cable as to iden-
tity of Munkacsys grand picture OF Christ
Before Plate" which is advertised as on ex-
hibition in London, and the answer returned
that "a small sketch Of this composition, ono
twentieth the size Of the original, belonging
to Mr.. Charles Warning, an engineer, and
friend of NJ. de Munkacsy, has been loaned to
n dealers exhibition in the 11aymarkct"
This sort of thing is what the London papers
wtheringly allude to as "Balnumism" when
it is practiced in America.
The last of the five bas relief panels for
the Garfield monument in Cleveland was fin
ished the other day by Caspar Buberl, til
sculptor, and was put on exhibition in his
studio in New York. 1t measures by 1G
feet in the plaster and contains nearly twenty
figures some in bassos and some in alto re-
lievo. This last panel represents Garfield
lying in state guarded by two soldiers and q
Knight Tempar. while a crowd Of people
press by to take last look. Among them
are merchant a sailor, negro, two
women, a little girl and crippled old man,
all of life size. The five panels, in fact, will
make friczc, picturing five phases Of Car
fields lifc-the schoolmaster, the soldier, the
orator, the president and the martyr. The
first four have already been cast in terra
Gotta
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
ABOUT WOMEN.

Tho number OF women employed rs pension
officials in England il stated to be 3lS,
A Young girl from the Sandwich Islands
ia studying law ut the University OF Ilchi
gan.
Nimc. Verne, mother OF Jules Verne, The
novelist, is dead, aged 81. Shc resided ~
Nantes.
Miss Bruce daughter Of tho typo founder,
has givcn $50, coo for u free circulating library
IN New York.
Tho latest woman ia America is Hannah
Bnttersby, who is said to weigh ''S pounds.
She Is Al years of age.
Mrs. Senator Beck, who died recently, was
grand niece OF George Washington end Lis
nearest living descendant.
According TO Mrs. Mary A. Livcrmore
there are now 2.7 occupations open to women,
rs against seven at the beginning of the cen
tury.
Mrs Frank Leslie is of Hugucnot cztrac-
ton, and was born in the French quarter OF
New Orleans She il said to speak French,
Spanish, Italian, German and English with
equal Guency.
Mrs. Clcvcland's ears have never been
pierced ST. that she does not wear car
rings; nor docs she wear finger rings Her
only ornament is tho diamond necklace
which was the presidents wedding gilt.
Queen Margaret OF Italy is exceptionally
susceptible to cold, and seldom is without Il
heavy wrap, even in well warmed rooms
Her own apartments in the Quirinal arc kept
at u temperature which is to most people o2-
pressivcy hot.
Tho richest colorcd woman in this country
il Mrs. Amanda Eubanks of Rome, Ca, who
Pays taxes on 100000. She inherited the
property from her white father. Second in
wealth is Mrs. James Thomas Of st. Louis,
who is assessed on $500, 900 and owns the Lin
dell hotel barber shop, said to be the finest in
tho world.
Mrs. Henry Woods grave is in l1ighgate
cemetery. near those OF George Eliot, Parepa
Rosa, Frederic Maurice, George Vandenhoif,
Ii. Crabb Robinson, Alaric A. Watts, Lord
Lyndhulst, and the father, mother and little
daughter of Charles Dickens. Near by, also,
is tho tomb of Wombweli the famous me-
naGerie Snowman, slrmounted by full sized
lion in marble.
Miss INate Field does not believe in Lady
Habcrton's "rcform dress" She sent over to
London for one of the divided skirts, put it
OH and went out for a walk. 1t began to
rain. She tried TO hold the garment up out
of the mud, but couldn't. 1t was worse than
tho ordinary dress, When she got home it
was terribly bedraggled, and she sold it next
day to second hand dealer
Miss Brooks. who is engaged TO Mr.. Ed
mund NJ Wheelwright, is entirely deaf and
dumb, andis beautiful looking girl, of noble
stature and superb figure. She went abroad
several years ago, and while there learned to
interpret conversation and to make herself
understood so perfectly that it is a very easy
matter to talk with her, She is immensely
bright, amiable and very popular with all
her friends.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01

Energy viii do almost anything, but 1t can
not exist II the blood is impure and moves
slugcishly in :he veins. There is nothing so
good for cleansing tie blood and impar,ing en-
ersy 20 The system as Ayers Sarsaparills.
Pfice 81. Six bottles, 80. Sold by druggists.
adv.
tramp who offered TO saw cord OF wood for
lits5urg woman was told that che used natural
gas. "Ntll, IL You give me a square neal" sa'c
ihe tramp. "IlI turn on the sas.'
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01
aIl.the BEST Drug Scores

and Dealers, cell HOP ConPound-a Spring Tonis
for eli and young. PINS. sac- TRY TT.-Adv
iALEs HONEY Is TIE Des; Cough GUS, g, 5oe., u
5LExs's SULPHUR SOAP heal. and beauties. &c
..RSAs CORN REMOVER kills. Cons & Buuions, &c
HIS HAIR q WHISPER DYE-Elack & BsOSn, 5oc
PITS TooTHAcHE DROPS cure in N;uu.s, &c
D. rs RHEUMATIC PILLS are ss-e eE-s. .Q-
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01

wba, a saving have made during the last year by
being my own doctor. Last year paid out SEQ IS
for dOstOrs and their medicine; this year paid
$500 for Elk bottles Of sulphur Biiters, aud they
have kept health In nywto.e family They are
The bes' and purest medic ne ever made.-lChafies
kiug, 60 Temple Street, Boston. Mass adv.
A London Jour alist Ia. established school for
newspaper men Pupils viii be Instructed in all
brssches Of newspaper work.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1887-04-01

Unlike other ca'bariics. d. Pierce's pellets"
DO lot render the bowels cos,ive after operation,
but. on tie contrary, establish a permanently
healthy action. Being ,nfirtly regsfa5le, no
particular care is required white using them.
By druggists.
PIPE of beaten gold has beer found il an orange
grove al Apopka, + orida.
Near Utica. liz, over co. pounds OF Wild honey
was lately found IN a hollow tree.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-11-10
She Wears Her Hair short.

"0uida," the extravagant, passed
her 50th birthday some time ago, and
is still Miss de la Rance. She is rather
masculine in figure, and, from much
exposure to wind and weather, her
face, including her nose, has become
decidedly rubicund.
Her Gambler hair" which she used
to wear flowing over her shoulders, in
the style she favored in her earlier
novels, is cut short, pushed back from
her forhead, and confined with a.narrow
ribbon. On festive occasions she wears
white velvet, favOrite material of hers,
judging from the frequency with which
she arrays her heroines in it, but or
dinarily she is dressed in the most
dowdy English style. She lives with
her mother in q villa situated about
four miles from Florence, which is
literally crammed with all sorts of
choice and artistic possessions-old en-
broideries, antique gold and silver
brocades, fine old porcelains, bronzes,
pictures, etc. In fact, it is said that
she has sunk most of the large sums
that she has received for her later
novels in these purchases.
She is also extravagantly fond of
dogs, and is always accompanied in
her daily walks by some ten or fifteen
of these canine pets, which are usually
of the largest possible size. Also she
delights in driving in high dog-cart at
tremendous rate of speed, and has
been more than once fined for too
rapid driving. Boston Globe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-11-10

Here is an odd little episode as de-
scribed in the London Times by its
Odessa correspondent: / was present
yesterday in the Appellate Court here
when an appeal was heard from a Rus
sian peasantnam Krzyanovski against
the sentence of six months imprisonment
adiudged him by the Kamentz Podolsk
tribunal for blasphemy. The appellants
offense was this; Tired and weary after
long days labor in the field last year
he entered the village tavern and drank
glass vodkha. After this appetizer
he was supplied with a small meat roH,
called in Russian ''pirog." The peas
ant found the .pirog" such excellent
eating that he exclaimed: II would
rather kiss the girl who made this prog
than the iconi' The latter is the sa-
cred picture never absent from any
Russian habitation, before which it is
usual for visitors TO uncover and cross
themselves. The peasants exclamation
was highly complimentary to the cook
of the tavern, but the priest, to whom
it was reported. heard and judged it in
different light. Hence the prosecution
and sentence. The peasant, whom /
saw enter the box and devoutly
cross himself before the ''icon":. in
court, was middle-aged, joyial, and
good-tempered looking man, who APP
peared much relieved by the court re-
ducing the original sentence to one
months arrest.